News – Page 92
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HSJ LocalTrust chief takes over ICB ‘in recovery’
A CEO who has stabilised a struggling ambulance trust is leaving to take over an integrated care board with major finance and performance problems.
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NewsA&Es not being overwhelmed by ‘low acuity’ patients, NHSE review finds
An NHS England review has found the proportion of ‘low acuity’ patients attending emergency departments is far smaller than expected.
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HSJ Local‘Patients are choosing palliative care over cancer treatment’ due to lack of local services, CEO warns
Patients in part of the East of England are choosing to begin palliative care over cancer treatment because of prohibitive travel times and costs to get to the nearest specialist centre, a local system leader has warned.
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NewsSouth East gets biggest share of new trainees
Ministers have announced the locations of 350 additional medical training places for 2025–26, with the largest share going to the South East region.
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NewsBuilding a hospital ‘not difficult’, says re-elected mayor
A mayor is planning to launch a consultation to build a new hospital the government says he has no powers to build – claiming the project “doesn’t seem difficult”.
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HSJ LocalDirectors ‘should face disciplinary action’ over unfair dismissal, judge says
Former Norfolk and Waveney system leaders should face “further investigation and those responsible face disciplinary action”, as they “conspired” to unfairly dismiss an assistant director, a judge has concluded.
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NewsMapped: RTT waiting times
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in March 2024, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty.
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NewsFormer hospital chief to chair second trust
A former trust chief executive has been appointed chair of a second trust in the South East.
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NewsPrestigious trusts sought to ‘circumvent’ spending limits, Treasury rules
Two specialist trusts have been threatened with regulatory action after the Treasury ruled they had attempted to “circumvent” capital spending limits, a letter recently sent to trusts has revealed.
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NewsAcute trust to give patient groups ‘equity index’ rating in drive to tackle care inequality
Putting too much emphasis on prioritising waiting lists could become a “tick box” exercise and, therefore, not solve the “real problem” of inequalities in accessing care, a trust chief executive has said.
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NewsLong-waiters fall by a third despite ‘stubbornly high’ elective list
Trusts cut the number 65-week breaches by 35 per cent between February and March, reducing the long waiter cohort significantly from around 75,000 to around 49,000, according to NHS England’s monthly data.
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News‘Strained’ estate threatens national workforce plan, NHSE leak reveals
NHS England has found that one in five GP surgeries – and more than two-fifths in some regions – were built more than 75 years ago, and is concerned a lack of space will stop it meeting targets to train more GPs, HSJ has learned.
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NewsPFI firm agrees to pay for hospital’s safety improvements
A private equity-owned private finance initiative company is paying to make a hospital it built fire-safe, HSJ has learned.
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NewsAnother of government’s ‘40 new hospitals’ admits it will miss 2030 target
A second trust in the government’s flagship NHS building programme has publicly admitted it does not expect its new hospital to be built by ministers’ 2030 target.
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News£500m cut to local integration funds revealed
Integrated care boards and local authorities are cutting their voluntary contributions to the better care fund by more than £500m compared to a high point in 2021–22.
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NewsExclusive: Ministers trigger review of CQC inspection regime
The government is launching a review of the Care Quality Commission and has appointed a senior NHS figure to lead it, HSJ understands.
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NewsNHS overly protective of its workforce, says social services leader
The new president of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services has accused the NHS of wanting to “protect its workforce” at the cost of developing a more effective health and care system.
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HSJ LocalNHSE should intervene in trust safety investigation, says inquiry chair
The chair of the major inquiry into rogue surgeon Ian Paterson has raised concerns over a separate patient recall process conducted by Salford Royal Hospital, and suggested NHS England should intervene.
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NewsJoint ICB/trust committee given binding powers to improve system’s care quality
An integrated care system has agreed to establish a unique body comprising both commissioners and providers, which will be empowered to make binding decisions affecting the entire health economy.
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NewsEXCLUSIVE: Trusts regularly breaching security standards
Twenty one serious security failures at hospital mortuaries were discovered by the Human Tissues Authority between April 2022 and March 2024, HSJ can reveal.